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is this a viable operating system? anyone have experience with it or knowledge on it

>>5699 What are you looking for in an OS, Anon?

>>5718 Haiku , clone of BeOs. Single user OS. C++ object oriented Kernel. I have never used it (but i'd like to try it). Emphasis is single user system (no security) and multimedia. Might make sense for people.

Assuming you don't need multiuser or the latest HTML 5 BS, sure. Also no easy to set up X11, so there's that. It runs a lot of loonix stuff though.

Niche OSes are always a pain to use, and since they're used by so few people you're going to get poor hardware support, things that don't work as they should and software that doesn't compile. So unless you enjoy reading every single manpage and spending half of your time fighting compiler errors and drivers then no, I don't recommend using Haiku OS.

>>5699 It's a experimental hobby OS? What do you want?

Doesn't matter as long as I can boot Emacs on it. Alas, at this point, someone's only ported qemacs.

>>5743 You buy hardware for the software you want, not the other way around. >>5744 Haiku is the polar opposite of a hobby os. The only reason why it's even talked about is because its main competitor is ten times as archaic and broken.

>>5746 The polar opposite of a hobby os would be garbage that exists only to make money, i.e. Windows. There is no need to be defensive about it. Haiku doesn't solve any real world problem it only exists as a cool project for a group of guys to hack on i.e. a hobby OS. Right?

Haiku's hardware support is pretty poor. Also, It's not completely open source IIRC, so take that into account. You can watch videos on it, browse the web, edit text files and open image files; so you could get away with using it in a non-work machine. I wouldn't recommend it as a "daily driver" OS. >>5737 >or the latest HTML 5 BS I think you can install Qupzilla on it.

>>5761 Haiku itself is BSD licensed I'm pretty sure. Hardware support is admittedly not great but it works fine on older machines, I have it on an IdeaPad S10e and everything is 100% I also have it on a Pentium II box and web browsing is bearable, unlike every other OS And yeah, qupzilla works. WebPositive is pretty usable nowdays though.

>>5699 Haiku is comfy as fuarrrk. I want proprietary WiFi drivers.

Why use this over OpenBSD

>>5821 >Why use this over OpenBSD You probably wouldn't. Its a hobbiest OS for single user systems based on an architecture that pre-dates security features in OS's. Its like TempleOS, or C64. They are just two wholly different domains. Unless you want to play with OpenBSD and security isn't important.

Haiku is useable as a daily driver, probably not recommended though. Just install it in a VM if you're interested, it's got some rather novel features and a rather nice window manager.

are there any non unix os' that are decent

>>6040 I don't know about decent but here is a list if you want to take a look. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems#Non-Unix-like Let us know if you find a good one.

>>6040 One thing I've been thinking of lately is now in modern computing anything that can access the internet and play HD video is almost half a computer. I know this isn't the case technically, but it does seem like these alternative O.S.s would do much better if demands for a computer these days weren't so high and various. I suppose the total opposite of this would be FreeDOS, but that's a little too far...

>>6053 I love freedos

>>6042 What's going on with Inferno? Have you had experience

>>6108 >What's going on with Inferno? Have you had experience Me? I only posted the wikipedia list dude. I have no experience but I know that Plan9 does have its fans >Plan 9 was my stand out favorite. It was small, clean code, written by some of the best minds in computing. The C compilers were small enough to be read from start to finish, and the entire kernel was designed to be ported to various platforms without a single preprocessor macro. I loved Plan 9 so much, I used it as my primary OS for three years between 2002 and 2005 while studying kernel theory. >More importantly, Plan 9 introduced some extremely important concepts to computing. The proc file system (procfs) we're all familiar with on Linux? It originated on Plan 9. The rfork system call and the concept of lightweight processes (a large improvement over threads) came from Plan 9's resource sharing model. The entire concept of namespaces? Another idea that originated with Plan 9. http://blog.securitymouse.com/2016/07/this-old-vulnerability-1-plan-9-devenv.html

>>6127 Wait, it looks like Inferno is not a fork of Plan9 it's a whole different thing. My bad.